New vestments

New vestments

Recently the sisters of the sewing workshop finished a complex and very important order. They have made the priestly vestment "Damascus." The vestment is made of golden brocade; its color solution is in the style of Byzantine miniatures: bright vegatative ornament against golden background. On the shoulder piece of the back of the priestly vestment an icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is embroidered; there is a prayer under it: "Holy Father Nicholas, pray to God for us!" The sisters-iconographers initially did a sketch for the elaboration of iconographic depiction, and the sisters-embroideresses elaborated the program. The halo on the embroidered icon of the saint is decorated with pearls. The tassels on the vestment are handmade with a glassbead network (the head of every tassel is bead-braided). The buttons are made of malachite.

The icon on the back of the shoulder piece

On the day of commemoration of St. Nicholas the vestment was handed to the Orthodox church of the Italian city of Bari.